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Alright, fine, here's the backstory about replacing my Microsoft Copilot key with a picture of a carp. Warning: that's the whole story.

When I bought my latest laptop, which coincidentally is already losing functionality in multiple keys, I noticed that the right Control button was no longer a right Control button. This was a bad sign for me, someone who fairly frequently used the right Control button. Worse still, it now bore the Microsoft Copilot logo and would open, when pressed, Microsoft Copilot. Not having personal interest in that particular robot, I was now in the market to rebind that key to something else.

I initially considered setting it up as my dedicated The Sims 2 button, but not only do I not yet have The Sims 2 installed on this computer, the way I play that game, it takes upwards of 15 minutes to boot up. I knew I would be constantly accidentally hitting this key, and I did not want to be constantly accidentally opening The Sims 2.

My partner immediately suggested that I set it to open "a jpeg of a fish." I Googled "carp," found an image, and set my right Control key to open a tiny browser window with a link to said fish. Though it is a .png file from pngtree labeled "pngtree-rohu-carp-fish-png-png-image_4022775.png", in an effort to display matrimonial piety, I dutifully labeled it "fish jpeg."

I now accidentally open this link multiple times a day, which is great, because it means I have a lot of opportunities to see a fish. Sometimes I accidentally hit it several times in quick succession, which means I get to see several fish! When I close all my open programs to shut down my computer, I usually find at least one forgotten fish. Things are working out beautifully, and everyone is happy.

The other day I brought up this story to a friend and relayed the saga of my success to her through her obvious confusion. At the end of my tale she asked me, "Why didn't you just bind it back to right Control?" and I had to admit to her that it honestly never occurred to me.

not-terezi-pyrope

I forgot that Americans spell it "mommy" and that therefore "strong as fuck ice mummy" was unabiguously about some sort of undead ice lich, and not ambiguously also about a sort of buff frosty milf archetype like I had been imagining for most of the past couple of years

sh4rkguts

writtenroses1813

I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

catasters

vintage-tigre

God forbid

catchymemes

deepwithinwords-deactivated2026

guiltxless-deactivated20260309

“You want to be an author? That’s awesome! I could never do that, I’m so bad with words”

Me searching for words similar to “slowly” for the fifth time and then going to google the definition of each word just to make sure it means slowly:

an0neemouse

Don't use adverbs. Said is dead. Always show, never tell. Avoid cliches. Never use the word 'very.' Don't use alliteration. Don't use boring descriptors. Use unique words.

For fuck's sake, what can I use? Seriously y'all, I don't know about you, but all the advice on how to write does Jack shit for me other than make it really fucking impossible to tell a story.

Write what you want to. Fuck the rules.

thewanderingspaceman-deactivate

Yes

chubs-deuce

caught soft aftershow funnybunny feels while listening to dodie,,,,

bethanydelleman

I have to say something about how to approach fiction, because while I think I've always done it automatically, judging by online discourse this is not universal: when engaging with fiction you should just accept the premise and in-universe rules.

For example, you reading a story set in the past and the main couple are 17 and 25. Does everyone in the story treat this as a totally normal age gap? Okay, then for now, put your 21st century morality in a little box and label it "real world morals" and then put this couple's age gap being normal in a box called "in-universe/historical morals" and accept that you can store both boxes in your mind without exploding because you are are thinking, rational human being. Because it's driving me straight up a wall that people can't seem to do this! "He kills people, what a red flag!" "Ma'am, that is a magical warlord and if he stopped killing people they would kill him. He doesn't have an office job."

"That was very dubious consent. I can't support this ship." "Sir, she grew up in literal hell, I doubt they had comprehensive sex ed there. Also, she might learn and grow?"

"She's only sixteen, he's a pedo!" "If society at that time says that sixteen is the marriageable age, then no, he's not. That is not how any of this works."

"They grew up together and their parents want them to marry? Gross." "Yeah, it would be weird today, but everyone is treating this as normal. I guess it was A Thing."

Sure, in a modern, non-fantasy story set in your country, judge by your moral code all you want, but if you want to actually enjoy a story that isn't written with your exact morals, you need to accept the premise. Step back later and do some analysis, think about how society has changed (hopefully for the better), but keep in the mind the intent of the author in that time, culture, genre, or universe.

Yeah, Marianne Dashwood & John Willoughby are a creepy age gap today, but Jane Austen thought it was normal so while you read Sense & Sensibility, you can do that too. I promise it will make your reading experience 1000% better and you won't go straight to hell or anything. If you can't handle that, I banish you to the non-fiction section of the library.

Edit: I'm not saying force yourself to read something that is too ick for you. I'm not saying you can't say, "This narrative supported something I found repulsive, so I stopped." I'm just saying, try to read the book from the perspective offered and see what you think instead of freaking out the second something doesn't agree with your worldview.

Edit 2: I don't think this is suspension of disbelief. S.of D would be "I accept that vampires exist in this world" and this would be, "In a world where vampires exist, it's fine for a 900 year old vampire to date a 20 year old human."